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AN GAOḊAL.
ell : as, áit, place.
Sing.
Plur.
N A.
an áit
na h-áite.
Gen.
na h-áite,
na n-áit.
Dat.
do 'n áit,
do na h-áitiḃ.
Voc.
a áit,
a aite.
The preposition do is used before
the article just for illustration; any o¬
ther preposition would do just as well
EFFECT of the article on FEMININE
nouns:
109. Nominative case: The article
aspirates the first consonant, unless
that be d or t; as an ṁaidin (wad in)
an tír, an deifir. When the noun be¬
gins with s, the form ant is used ; as,
ant ṡúil, an tsúil, the eye. As all
words of this declension are feminine
we cannot use the form ant before
words beginning with a vowel, as an
t-aill (except im, which is masculine :
an t-im (tim)].
110. Genitive case : the article na
prefixes h to vowels, as bárr na h-
aille (hal'-ĕ), the top of the cliff
111. Dative case. The article with
a preposition eclipses as noted under
first declension.
112 GENITIVE PLURAL is eclipsed
by the article as usual.
113 IMPORTANT omission of the
article. In the phrase, capall Pead¬
air, (padh'-ir), Peter's horse, (the)
horse of Peter; seol an ḃáid (the) sail
of the boat ; seol mo ḃáid, (the) sail of
my boat, we notice that when one
noun is followed by another in the ge¬
nitive case, if the second one be a pro¬
per noun, or have the article or poss¬
essives mo, do etc., the first cannot
have the article.
114. lár (Laur) middle láir, a mare.
Do ḃí an láir 'na seasaṁ ar lár an
ḃóṫair, nó, ar lár na sráide (srau'-
dĕ), agus do ḃí an tsráid (traud) glan
Atá an t im ins an gcrúisgín so. Do
ḃí solus mór in a ṡúiliḃ. Is milis feur
na páirce so. An ḃfuil na capaill ins
na páirciḃ? Níl na diallaide ar na
capallaiḃ Ṫug sé luaċ na ndiallaid
(nee'-al-id) do 'n ḟear.
115. Put the butter on the bread,
and put the bread in your pocket.
(The) taste of the bread. The bread
is in my pocket, with the butter. (The)
bridle of the mare is lost. We are not
on the right road. (The) music of the
birds. The tree is in (the) middle of
the field.
Genitive ;
N.A. an t-im, the butter.
Gen. an ime
Dat. do 'n im etc.
LESSON XII.
THIRD DECLENSION.
116. Forms the genitive case sin¬
gular by adding -a to the nominative.
Some words of this declension are
masculine and some feminine. Most
of them can be easily known by their
terminations
Example
Fíon, wine, masculine.
117.
Sing.
Plur.
NA an fíon,
na fíona.
Gen. an ḟíona (eenă)
na ḃfíon (veen
Dat do 'n ḟíon,
do na fíonaiḃ (-iv)
Voc a ḟíon.
a ḟíona.
Example:
118. canaṁain, a dialect, feminine.
Sing.
Plur.
N A canaṁain
-aṁna.
Gen. canaṁna (-oona)
-aṁain.
Dat. canaṁain.
-aṁnaiḃ.
Voc a ċanṁain.
-aṁna.
All words ending in -aṁain, -aṁail,
-ail, -ain are thus declined. As bliaḋ¬
ain, bliaḋna (blee'-a-nă Saṁain, Saṁ¬
na.
119, Remember that mo, my; do,
thy; a, his cause aspiration. Ar, our;
